History of Feminism
Related: About this forumSo someone explain to me
Why do certain people continue to espouse outdated and simplistic anthropological theories of human development? Usually I'll trash a thread the minute I see that shit, because you'd have to teach a class to get their head out of their ass, not that that would work, but "alpha male"? People really believe that Edgar Rice Burroughs bullshit?
I could link to a number of essays and studies but I'm going to work.
I just find it completely strange.
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)there just is not that much difference in us as humans. men cannot argue it, but they are fighting that reality hard. more than anything they need to have a definite, clear, blunt line of a difference between the sexes that are not there.
look at their definition of masculinity. strength, character. what? is that like a male thing? not really and very instulting to a woman suggesting it is a "man" thing. yet repeatedly the adjectives that define their masculinity are adjectives that are gender neutral.
redqueen
(115,103 posts)It also allows those who subscribe to evo psych / PUA bullshit to rationalize their failure to attract a 'high value woman'... 99% of the time the people babbling about such crap are obsessed with rationalizing why they can't get hotter dates
BainsBane
(53,032 posts)MadrasT
(7,237 posts)...the men I know who are most attached to this evo-psych babble as a mechanism for "understanding" women and the "difference between the sexes"...
(ahem, sorry, that always makes me giggle)
...with the intent of "decoding" women so they can hook up with their perfect partner...
...are also the men who can't seem to find partners.
Coincidence?
nomorenomore08
(13,324 posts)ismnotwasm
(41,980 posts)Forgot about those, I think you're right. Heh.